Dewey's Book Reading Challenge

Dates: January 1st through December 31st of 2009

Host: Chris

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The Challenge (put simply): Either read one book from each year in Dewey's archives or read any five books from her archives.

***Obviously, this is more than your average reading challenge. In fact, I prefer to think of it not so much as a challenge, but as a time to spend some time in spirit with Dewey. She is so loved. And she is so missed.***

My list of possibilities:

*Looking for Alaska by John Green

*The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood & Social Change edited by Shari MacDonald Strong

*The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

*How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

*The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

*The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

*Le Petit Prince by Antoine de St.-Exupéry

*Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

*The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket

*The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

*The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

*American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

*We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

*The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot

*The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

*The Pesthouse by Jim Crace

*Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

*The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg

*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

*Nation by Terry Pratchett

--Oh my, this list could go on for pages...